Tactical Air Navigation , TACAN (Abkürzung)

Dow's tactical air navigation system glide slope function was temporarily disabled after the first aircraft landed.

They have Tactical Air Navigation, and a VHF omnidirectional radio beacon.

The onboard Tactical Air Navigation System, which only retained the last measured altitude, gave an altitude reading of 468 feet.

Tactical air navigation (TACAN) station.

TACAN - Tactical Air Navigation.

Directive to use air to air tactical air navigation (A/A TACAN) for ranging.

In 1960 the staging detachment was changed from a fighter to a TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation) unit.

A tactical air navigation system, commonly referred to by the acronym TACAN, is a navigation system used by military aircraft.

Mr. Dodington, an engineer who held 50 patents, developed the system that directs planes to airports using radio beacons, technically known as tactical air navigation and distant measuring equipment.

In 1957 Hoffman Electronics became a leader in designing airborne navigation systems called TACAN or Tactical Air Navigation.

Electronic tactical air navigation (TACAN) became an absolute necessity in Laos, where mountain peaks and unexpected inclement weather made flying extremely hazardous, especially for older aircraft.

Most other functions transferred to Elmendorf, including a unit of C-123 transport aircraft, Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) operations, and all logistic support for auxiliary sites.

There were immediate problems such as budgetary restraints (from the ongoing war) and a concurrent effort by the military to pursue an incompatible system (Tactical Air Navigation; TACAN).

The distance measuring equipment (DME) did not lock onto the McMurdo Tactical Air Navigation System (TACAN) for any useful period.

The base also has a military-grade navigation system called a TACAN-"Tactical Air Navigation"-that can adapt to the special guidance devices NASA uses with its shuttles.

During renovation which were made by NASA in 1988, the runway was equipped with shuttle-unique landing aids, including a Microwave landing system and Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) system.

Large sales included GM-built Light Armoured Vehicles to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Air Defense Anti-Tank Systems and a Tactical Air Navigation System to Thailand.

Updated avionics systems that included advanced general purpose computers, improved inertial measurement units and tactical air navigation systems, enhanced master events controllers and multiplexer-demultiplexers, a solid-state star tracker and improved nose wheel steering mechanisms.

The C-38 differs from the standard Gulfstream G100, featuring US military-grade GPS, Tactical Air Navigation, UHF and VHF secure command radio, and Identification friend or foe system.

While the shuttle is still hundreds of miles from the runway, the spacecraft's radios and antennas lock onto a set of ground-based beacons known as the tactical air navigation system, which broadcasts pulses that the shuttle decodes to compute its bearing.

MIDS is a secure, scalable, modular, wireless, and jam-resistant digital information system currently providing Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN), Link-16, and J-Voice to airborne, ground, and maritime joint and coalition warfighting platforms.